So far today, Day 14 of #CovidJail, I have watched two #movies.
That is to say, I watched one all the way through.
The second, I gave up on one hour in.
The one I finished was #BlackBox with Mamoudou Athie and Phylicia Rashad. It was fine. I guessed the twist the first time Athie's character experienced a jarring memory. The rest of the storyline was wholly predictable. Athie's acting and Amanda Christine's were the only part I can say I enjoyed. Rashad as a mad scientist was fine.
1/
The second movie was #Foe with Saiorse Ronan. Frankly, I kept waiting for something to happen. At the 59 minute mark, when nothing had happened to get me emotionally invested with the characters, I paused and went looking for a synopsis.
The amount of story they had, they could've wrapped that up in 30 minutes. No reason to stretch it nearly 2 hours. *yawn*
I haven't seen #StarshipTroopers since before it earned cult status, so I'ma try that next. 🤞
2/2
Okay, #StarshipTroopers, your first 3 minutes are already more hilarious than I remembered.
When I saw this in theaters 27 (!?!!!?!?! wtf) years ago, I was still very much a Heinlein fan and expecting it to be just like the novel. Thus, I despised the movie.
That was definitely about fifty Courtneys ago. 😆
RICO! RICO!
Rico, pay attention, you dork. Jester's talking to you.
"I doubt anyone here would recognize civic virtue if it reached up and bit you in the ass."
That seems like a useful quote for diverse situations. 🤣
Doogie Howser!?!!???!?
BLANCHE DEVEREAUX❓❗⁉️⁉️❓❗❓⁉️⁉️⁉️❓❗
"Cyrano, get off my leg!"
I had no idea we'd get into classic literature territory here.
Whoooooo, these military ads are SO today's politicians posing for Christmas cards with their families and every member armed with AR-15s.
"Do you think I'm funny? Do I make you laugh? Do you think I'm a comedian?"
CLANCY EFFIN BROWN IN DA HOUSE! 😄
"DEW YEW *GET* ME?!" 🤣
Diz already annoys me, but her kicking Rico and Ace into the mud is satisfying. 😉😁
Watching Carmen and her crew flying in their little shuttle, I'm all WHERE ARE THEIR HELMETS?!?
Too much #BattlestarGalactica lately 😆
Oh good! Laser tag! 😀
Is it still a Dear John(ny) letter if she's in the service too?
I did not remember *anything* from this movie. Guess I hated it so much the first time, I blocked it out. 😆
Denise Richards is just an adorable little cutie pie.
"Arachnid Quarantine Zone" is just not something that should ever need to exist.
No, Johnny! Don't take the stroll down Washout Lane!
Hate it when the bugs whack us good, Johnny.
"WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW *MORE*?"
Nothing like getting kids to stomp cockroaches like a gang of gleeful sociopaths.
Nutso drill sergeants, jarheads and fleet officers, fistfight over a girl, get the matching group tats, follow orders without question, utterly destroy the enemy without mercy -- how did 20yo me not see the ridiculous satire of this movie?
Fifty Courtneys ago. At least.
Mega-giant cockroaches that shoot blue firework rocket bombs out their asses. Neat.
Diz: Ace, what are we doing?
Ace: Uhhh, I dunno.
Why do I have the feeling that exchange happens in war situations a whole lot more often than any of us realize
I feel like maybe their ammo is not particularly effective.
Johnny, no, talk to me, Johnny!
*sigh* Where's a good gif of Guinan when you need one?
Wait, so the main character just got murdered by a giant assassin bug, but the movie is only half over?
The scenes with all the bugs scurrying everywhere make me wanna watch #EdgeOfTomorrow again. I don't even care, I love that movie.
Giant flame-spewing cockroach beetle. Gotta be taken down from above.
Where's Legolas when you need him?
Rico, you kill bugs good.
Ye GAWDS how did I not see this movie for what it is?
THEY'RE PLAYING FUCKIN DIXIE 🤣
Well Diz, you're finally getting him to lay you. And even Jester understands. I guess. 😆
Had to pause to check y'all's replies. Now back at it, and suddenly we've got FLYING BUGS?!?
Ach du meine Güte.
Watkins (FATHER GABE), seeing the mangled human bodies inside the military compound:
"Geeeez, someone really humped the bunk."
Y'all, I GUFFAWED. 🤣
I think the general has a bug that's going to bust out of his head and I really hope I'm right about that
Aw shoot, flying bug took out the general. I don'tget to see the #BrainWorms.
Oh dang that's a mess of bugs.
I was right! Crazy Carmen crashes the party!
Aw. Jester's dead for real this time.
@GrimmReality That was what I thought at first too, watching that scene tonight.
But then when she completely hung a lampshade on it as she was dying, I decided that Verhoeven was making mincemeat out of a specific trope: the Woman Gets Punished For Having Sex trope. From that perspective, I approve 100%.
@GrimmReality FAIR. It *is* ick! It's ALL the ick. But I think that's what helps subvert the trope so completely. She *is* better -- which highlights the exquisite sarcasm beneath her "it's okay I'm dying, because I got to have you."
Come to think of it, that might just be the satirical crux of the entire film. 😳
@courtcan
It's coming back to me now. I saw the Starship Troopers movie. A CGI horror. I guess the gore is what comes back to me in fragments, and I'd read the book like a couple of decades earlier which barely helped me understand the movie.
Or I'd read at least part of it. I can't remember if I finished it or not. I remember the circumstances of the reading better than I remember the book.
I was sitting in a bus terminal in the big city of Kansas City where I'd been transported courtesy of the government to take my draft physical. I was nearing graduation from my little Midwestern college and the government was wasting no time as my draft status was going to change soon.
I'd spent the previous night in the crummy KC hotel provided for me and at least a dozen others collected from around the area. I shared a room with some young fellow I'd never met, and he surely was more unusual than most who'd been bussed there.
I recall spending that evening nervously looking out the hotel window at the KC night life, and realizing that this wasn't the best neighborhood I could be in. Being of small town origin it took me awhile to realize what the gawdy dressed ladies walking up and down the sidewalk were up to. The seedy look of the neighborhood (and the unusual roommate) made it hard to sleep.
The next morning I, my roommate, and a dozen or more others were bussed to the location where we were to have the unpleasant experience of the assembly line physical. After that I was then waiting at the bus terminal to use the government provided bus ticket back to the homey comfort of my little college town.
It is only just possible that the draft physical experience overshadowed my recollections of the book.
Both fun movies.
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